Top Trends in Teaching and Learning with E-Books

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Share This:     Tech Tips Newsletter ReBlogged: December 27, 2014 Editor: Karen Franker This e-newsletter is brought to you by University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Education. If you do not wish to receive future issues, please see instructions to manage preferences at the bottom of this message. NOTE: Web version of the newsletter http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/resources/blog.cfm Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/onlineteaching -------------------- In this issue... 1. Top Trends in Teaching and Learning with E-Books 2. Tech Tip: Add Soundtracks to Your E-Books and How to Format eBooks in Microsoft Word  3. Congratulations on the National Award 4. “Hot” Online Courses for Spring Top Trends in Teaching and Learning with E-Books Explore the latest resources and innovations to effectively select, create, and publish digital e-books to enhance learning. Current and Future States of the Publishing Industry, Part 3: Multimedia Interactivity with Books Andrew Doty speculates on the power of interactive e-books. What happens when you take the “Choose Your Own Adventure” model of reader-guided storytelling and apply it to electronic book design for adults? Creating eBooks Sevhan Acar Hammudeh and Denise Mcqueen Ozdeniz describe the iPad apps and Websites which they have successfully used with students to create e-books including: Creative Book Builder, Scribble Press, and ePub Bud. Modern Classroom Learning: Creating and Publishing Collaborative eBooks Karin Schreier Hallett describes the process she used with her fifth-graders in creating e-books with the BookCreator app on the iPad. Digital Textbooks: Show Me the Future! Victor Rovero provides a comprehensive list of links to 27 leading e-book publishers as well as a listing of the most popular e-reader devices. Use of e-Textbooks is Underway at UW-Stout and Expected to Grow In UW-Stout’s pilot e-textbook project with 1,500 students in 40 undergraduate and graduate courses students were positive about the following features of e-textbooks: searchability, customization by instructor, and portability. Tech Tips:  Add Soundtracks to Your E-Books and How to Format eBooks in Microsoft Word Dianna Dilworth explains how to use the new Booktrack http://www.booktrack.com/ app to add music and sound effects to e-books. David Weedmark describes formatting tips to use when creating e-books in Microsoft Word. National Honor Awarded to Dr. Susan Manning Congratulations to Dr. Manning, recipient of the 2013 Sloan-C Awards Excellence in Online Teaching. Consistently students’ end-of-course evaluations praise Dr. Manning’s exemplary module instructional design, effective video tutorials and web-based help sheets, highly interactive learning environment, engagement of learners in critical thinking activities, and personalized audio feedback on assignments. Student feedback indicates a very high satisfaction with how content and materials are chunked, and how the learning experiences are designed conceptually and aesthetically to provide an engaging learning experience. Dr. Manning’s new course employs interactive games and simulations to model use of games for assessment, to support collaboration, problem solving, and decision making and to increase motivation and engagement during training activities and in the classroom. Manning demonstrates how a digital badge is an iconic representation of a skill, achievement, or activity, and can be one method to superimposing game structures to the learning process. Dr. Manning teaches four online courses at UW-Stout.   Sign Up Soon for Spring Online Courses Check out the list of classes and start dates.  Register Online Sign up today to reserve a spot. No payment is due now; 10% is due in early February. Popular online classes include: Poverty in Schools: Working with At-Risk Students Middle School through Adult 6-Traits Writing Instruction E-learning for Educators Assessment in E-learning Math Assessment for Response to Intervention Strategies for Dealing with Disruptive Behavior Instructional Design for Online Learning Using Games for Learning and Assessment Check out the additional courses for an instructional design certificate, online teaching certificate,reading teacher and reading specialist certification, as well as courses about  PBIS, autism,classroom management, bullying, differentiated instruction, the flipped classroom, teaching with primary sources, mobile learning, STEM, middle school math and more. Request Information Online  School of Education Online Professional Development University of Wisconsin - Stout Phone: (715) 232-2253 Archives - back issues in case you missed the most recent newsletter. University of Wisconsin-Stout | College of Education, Health and Human Sciences 712 South Broadway Street, Menomonie, WI 54751 | Phone: 715-232-2253

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